West Hempstead Union Free School District

Excited to celebrate #GlobalPlayDay at @WHChestnut! Let's encourage creativity, collaboration, and joy through play today and every day. 🌍🎉 #PlayMatters #WHe

Thrilled to witness the creativity and growth of our @WHGWashington 6th graders at their writing celebration today! From imaginative stories to real-life experiences, they've honed their skills and shared their unique voices with confidence. 📝✨ #WritingCelebration #WHe

#WHe are proud to recognize our News 12/Bethpage Federal Credit Union Scholar Athlete, Eduardo Leon Lotero! This honor comes with a $1,000 scholarship sponsored by News 12 and Bethpage Federal Credit Union! @wh_secondary

Tomorrow is the day! Each year, Nassau County Bar Association lawyers volunteer to encourage and motivate high school students to consider a career in the legal profession by giving them support and advice to argue a real case in a real courtroom during Mock Trial. The annual NYS HS Mock Trial Tournament, the nation’s largest, provides students with hands-on opportunities to further their understanding of the law, court procedures & the legal system, while honing their speaking, listening, reading, and reasoning skills. @wh_secondary #WHe

Empowering co-teaching teams exemplify collaboration at its best! 🤝 When educators unite with shared goals, diverse skills, and mutual support, students thrive. #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork #WHe @wh_secondary @wh_pps @WHHumanities

🕵🏽‍♂️ Exploring the digital realm! @wh_secondary students diving into a web quest adventure, unlocking knowledge, and mastering the art of online exploration. 🌐📚 #WebQuest #EducationJourney #WHe

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When you switch seats...😃 @WHChestnut #WHe

Embracing the fabulous vibes in our district this Friday! Community spirit, positive energy, and a fantastic start to the weekend. #FabulousFriday #WHe

🌟 Shoutout to @WHChestnut students for showcasing impressive impulse management skills! 🧠👏 Your ability to think before acting is a valuable asset for success. Keep it up! #StudentSuccess #ImpulseControl #WHe

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Curriculum Day & Night was a success! Wonderful having students perform and inform parents/community about new and existing programs in Fine, Performing & Culinary Arts. Big thanks to the student volunteers and Mrs. Scollo! #WHe

Are you eager to encode a passion in your students, taking them from "basic" to applying abstractions, all while ensuring students become twenty-first-century literate? #WHe @wh_secondary @WHUFSDD

How humbling it is to witness the true beauty of the @wh_secondary students. Their knowledge and understanding far exceeds their years. #WHe

The power of student agency is on full display @wh_secondary school Curriculum Fair this evening! #WHe

The district congratulates @CornwellAveES first graders Roman Mavashev, Mark Oliver and Dyllan Snagg on being named as winners in Liberty Water’s annual Be Water Wise Art Contest! #WHe

@wh_secondary Curriculum Fair is this evening. All are welcome! #WHe

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Interested in learning more about @Wh_secondary curriculum? Come join us at the Curriculum Fair this Thursday, January 18, 2024 from 7PM-8:30 PM in the WHSS Auditorium. #WHe look forward to seeing you there.

On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 1966, King had tried to broaden the Civil Rights Movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. He joined the sanitation workers in Memphis, who were on strike after years of bad pay and such dangerous conditions that two men had been crushed to death in garbage compactors. After his friend Ralph Abernathy introduced him to the crowd, King had something to say about heroes: "As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about." Dr. King told the audience that, if God had let him choose any era in which to live, he would have chosen the one in which he had landed. "Now, that's a strange statement to make," King went on, "because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars." Dr. King said that he felt blessed to live in an era when people had finally woken up and were working together for freedom and economic justice. He knew he was in danger as he worked for a racially and economically just America. "I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter…because I've been to the mountaintop…. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life…. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!" - Heather Cox Richardson